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Chief
of Pediatric Surgery Saad A. Saad, M.D.,
speaks with 3-year-old Zachary Mueller of
Little Silver after his hernia surgery —
performed through an innovative technique
that eliminates the need for second incision.
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In 1996, hernia repair surgery for
children made history at Monmouth Medical Center.
Saad A. Saad, M.D., and Michael A.
Goldfarb, M.D., FACS, became the first surgeons in the
country to successfully perform an innovative technique
that eliminates the need for a second incision
— a surgical breakthrough that has since become the
standard of care.
While conventional hernia surgery had
meant repairing the protusion on the affected side of
the abdomen and then making another surgical incision
on the other side to check for a second hernia, Chief
of Pediatric Surgery Saad A. Saad, M.D., speaks with 3-year-old
Zachary Mueller of Little Silver after his hernia surgery
— performed through an innovative technique that
eliminates the need for second incision. Dr. Saad found
that through the use of a bronchoscope — a telescope
with working channels used to look inside the windpipe
— he could explore the abdomen on the opposite side
through the first incision.
Through this technique, known as contralateral
exploration of inguinal hernia, most children can avoid
unnecessary scarring from a second incision, as well as
wound infections.
Surgery to repair hernias is
one of the most common operations for children, and in
80 percent of the cases, there is no hernia on the opposite
side.
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